Calgary’s 20 minute makeover

On June 8, over 80 people joined Mayor Nenshi, Alderman Mar and Alderman Farrell on Stephen Avenue Mall, spending 20 minutes cleaning up Calgary’s City Centre. Decked out in bright yellow shirts, volunteers picked up cigarette butts and spruced up the streets. The idea was to encourage everyone to share the responsibility of making our…

Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse

The following post was written by a guest blogger, the Youth4Change team at Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse (CCASA). CCASA is a non-profit agency that offers education and support to sexual abuse and sexual assault survivors, their friends and families. Services we provide include: 24 hour support and information (free and confidential) Counselling to anyone…

Calgary River Clean-Up

Do you care for the river? Do you think that it is important for OUR health? Well, recently a river clean-up was done to promote the awareness of Calgary’s Bow and Elbow Rivers and how it’s the citizen’s duty to help clean up the litter and protect OUR river. Apparently, in our own river, volunteers…

A first look: The Google+ Project

Google has been one of the most popular and useful websites on the internet for years, and it seems that Google Inc. is constantly looking for ways to increase its usefulness and versatility to the public. Lately there has been quite the buzz around Google’s most recent venture, Google+, and I decided to get a better understanding…

A flowing waterfall

The significance of rainforests

The rainforests used to cover an estimated 14 per cent of the world’s surface, and today, due to deforestation, that number has been brought down to a mere six per cent. Another fact is that the rainforests on earth contain about 20 per cent of the world’s entire oxygen, and according to experts the last…

Pets are NOT products

Do you think it’s fair that pets are being treated like toys? How do you feel about Petland stores selling animals? The on-going issue in Calgary is that there are untrustworthy owners bringing in their pets to pet stores and the purchaser is unaware of the pet’s history. Petland claims that the animals that are…

Calgary Quiz

How well do you know Calgary? Test your knowledge with this short quiz! 1. What does the name Calgary mean? a. Where the trees stand b. Cattle herder c. Bay farm d. Muddy Water 2. Where is Calgary named after? a. Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull, Scotland b. Calgary Trail in Edmonton c.…

A success for sustainable seafood

Recent news: on July 4, Canada Safeway has announced that by 2015, it plans to only sell sustainably-farmed seafood. I must confess that the news, when I first heard it, made me feel something like this: Safeway’s promise puts it in the company of many other major supermarket chains that have committed to selling nothing…

Plague by Michael Grant

I recently read Plague, the third instalment of the Gone series, and I must say this series just keeps getting better. If you have not read the previous books in this series or my reviews of them, this review probably won’t make much sense. Basically the town is running out of water so Albert (who’s…